... of it, a wave of violence and anarchy engulfed the whole country. During the decade before the revolution, popular resistance against autocracy came in the form of radical student activism, the Eritrean insurgency, and peasant revolts. This chapter examines the spate of irreversible events that brought about...

...This chapter identifies the direct and indirect reasons that support the norm of nonintervention. Directly, nonintervention harms the self determination of peoples and it tends to produce one or more of three harmful consequences: renewed civil war, renewed autocracy, or imperial rule. Indirectly...

... in Catherine’s day. It considers the two disparate “visions” in Panin’s plan: the ostensible advocacy of a stronger, more efficient autocracy, and the envisioned partnership between the monarchy and the nobility in the imperial council. It also looks at the role of Grigorii Nikolaevich Teplov in drafting...

... gradual disillusionment with the Russian administration became an indicator of the atrophy of true belief in the autocracy and the growth of political cynicism amongst the Catherinian elites. Aleksandr I Bibikov Aleksandr Il’ich Catherine II Catherine the Great Derzhavin Gavriil Romanovich poetry...

... with progressive intellectuals such as Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov before discussing his Russian History from Ancient Times. It also explores Shcherbatov’s political outlook on issues ranging from despotism to constitutional monarchy, autocracy, and ideal society. Catherine II Catherine the Great...

...This chapter reconsiders recent challenges to opposition, like populism and autocracy. The orthodox, democratic conception leads to the systematic misdiagnosis of those challenges. The chapter attempts to identify the malady in question: real-world regimes that undermine opposition curtail the most...